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Joh. Michaelis Faustij ... Compendium alchymist. novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris jllustrata, das ist, Die edelste Gabe Gottes, oder, Ein güldener Schatz : mit welchem die alten und neuen Philosophi, die unvollkommene Metall, durch Gewalt des Feuers verbessert, und allerhand schädliche und unheylsame Kranckheiten innerlich und äusserlich, durch deren Würckung vertrieben haben : dieser Edition wird annoch, nebst vielen Kupffern und über 800 Philosophischen Anmerckungen, ein volkomenes Lexicon alchymisticum novum, und ein vollständiges Register rerum & verborum, beygefüget (1706)

Author: Faust, Johann Michael, 1663-1707; Reusner, Hieronymus, b. 1558. Pandora; Marchand, Johann Christian, 1680-1711
Subject: Alchemy
Publisher: Franckfurt und Leipzig : Verlegts Johann Zieger
Year: 1706
Language: German; Latin
Call number: 375876
Digitizing sponsor: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute
Book contributor: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute
Collection: gettyalchemy; getty; americana
Notes: No table of contents. Foxing. Narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text. Some text is impossible to capture.

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Brief extracts in Latin from writers on alchemy, with commentary in German. Based on Reusner's Pandora of 1582. See Hogart

T.p. across 2 pages, tipped in at center fold; printed in red and black

Frontispiece extends across 2 pages, tipped in at center fold. It is signed: L.C. Marchand fecit in Nürnberg. Nineteen engravings, bound between p. 1008 and [1021], have alchemical symbolism. Most are followed by a leaf in letterpress that gives on the recto Reusner's explanation of the symbolism, keyed to letters on the engraving, and on the verso that of Faustius. There are also in-text woodcut ill

Frontispiece and engravings of Library's copy are hand colored with watercolors including gold and silver. Eleven woodcuts (as well as 2 tailpieces) between p. 241 and 362 are also hand colored

Hogart, R. Alchemy

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